Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women''s Writing - In Contemporary Arab Women''s Writing

Informationen zum Autor Brinda Mehta is professor of French and Francophone studies at Mills College! Oakland! Ca. Klappentext Assesses fixed notions of Arab womanhood by exploring the complexities of Arab women's lives as portrayed in literature. Covering women writers and critics from Arab! French! and English traditions! this book aims to create a transnational Arab feminist consciousness. It examines the significance of memory rituals in women's writings. Zusammenfassung Assesses fixed notions of Arab womanhood by exploring the complexities of Arab women's lives as portrayed in literature. Covering women writers and critics from Arab! French! and English traditions! this book aims to create a transnational Arab feminist consciousness. It examines the significance of memory rituals in women's writings.

About the author

Brinda Mehta is a professor of French and Francophone studies at Mills College, Oakland, California. Her book, Diasporic Dis(locations): Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the "Kala Pani," won the Caribbean Philosophical Association's Frantz Fannon award for outstanding work in Indo-Caribbean thought.

Product details

• Authors: Brinda Mehta, Brinda J. Mehta
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2007
• EAN: 9780815631354
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3135-4
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics; Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies